单词 | sarcastically |
释义 | sarcasticallyadv. In a sarcastic manner; with sarcasm. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adverb] dryly1430 ironiously1532 ironically1535 satirically1590 Lucianically1592 sarcastically1647 sarcasmically1658 sarcasmatically1716 sardonically1842 caustically1850 to put, or speak with, one's tongue in one's cheek1928 sarkily1967 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > sarcasm > [adverb] dryly1430 sarcastically1647 sarcasmically1658 sarcasmatically1716 sarkily1967 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xiii. 55) As a Christian Schoolmaster fitly answered Libanus, sarcastically demanding: what the Carpenters son was now a doing? 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xii. 39 Or whether pursuing, or in a journey, or asleep somewhere, as Elias sarcastically argues concerning Baal. 1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts 25 It is not necessary that the right honourable gentleman should sarcastically call that time to our recollection. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 53 ‘I suppose now’, said Miss Ingram, curling her lip sarcastically [etc.]. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 49 If, it was sarcastically said, all our notions of right and wrong..are to be suddenly altered by a few lines of manuscript found in a corner of the library at Lambeth. 1885 Texas Sifting 16 May 1/1 ‘I am as hungry as a wolf. I work like a horse, but I can't sleep.’ ‘I guess you had better see a veterinary surgeon,’ said the doctor, sarcastically. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adv.1647 |
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